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 02/20/26 - Introduced

 SB-1284 Medi-Cal benefits: employer reports.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 05/15/2026 10:52 AM

SB1284:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 June 25, 2026

 Amended
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 Senate
 May 14, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 23, 2026

 Amended
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 Senate
 March 25, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1284

Introduced by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas
(Coauthors: Senators Arreguín, Becker, Cortese, Durazo, Gonzalez, McNerney, and Weber Pierson)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonta, Elhawary, Kalra, and Lee)

February 20, 2026

 An act to add Section 230.9 to the Labor Code, to amend Section 1095 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, and to add Section 11024.5 to, and to repeal Section 11026.5 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to medical benefits.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1284, as amended, Smallwood-Cuevas.
 Medi-Cal benefits: employer reports.

Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, headed by the Secretary of California Health and Human Services. Existing law further establishes, within the agency, a number of departments and other entities, including the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care benefits.

This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services, after obtaining specified information from the Employment Development Department (EDD), to prepare a report that includes information regarding employers in California that employ 100 or more employees and have any employees who receive benefits from the Medi-Cal program, including, among other things, the annual cost to the Medi-Cal program provided to each identified employer’s employees and their dependents enrolled in the Medi-Cal program,
 the estimated total annual cost of Medi-Cal services provided to employees, and the dependents of those employees, of each employer, and submit that report to the Legislature no later than July September 1, 2027, and annually thereafter. The bill would provide that individually identifiable information about employees or Medi-Cal enrollees contained in the report is exempt from disclosure under the California Public Records Act, and would authorize the department and EDD to enter into data-sharing agreements, as provided. The bill would also repeal an obsolete reporting requirement.

Under existing law, the information obtained in the administration of the Unemployment Insurance Code is for the exclusive use and information of the Director of
 Employment Development in the discharge of their duties and is not open to the public. However, existing law permits the use of the information for specified purposes, and allows the director to require reimbursement for direct costs incurred. Existing law provides that a person who knowingly accesses, uses, or discloses this confidential information without authorization is guilty of a misdemeanor.

The bill would require the Director of Employment Development to permit the use of specified information in their possession by the State Department of Health Care Services to prepare and submit the above-described report. By requiring this information to be provided to the department for these purposes, this bill would expand the crime of unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of this information, and would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law, subject to certain exceptions, also requires all types of
 information concerning a person, made or kept by any public officer or agency in connection with the administration of the Medi-Cal program, to be confidential, and makes knowingly releasing or possessing this confidential information punishable as a misdemeanor.

The bill would make individually identifiable information about employees or Medi-Cal enrollees contained in the above-described report subject to these confidentiality requirements. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law establishes within the Department of Industrial Rela